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Memoir of an eventful expedition in Central America : resulting in the discovery of the idolatrous city of Iximaya, in an unexplored region; and the possession of two remarkable Aztec children, descendants and specimens of the sacerdotal caste, (now nearly extinct,) of the ancient Aztec founders of the ruined temples of that country, described by John L. Stevens, esq., and other travellers

by: Velasquez, Pedro

Publication date: 1850

Topics: Central America -- Antiquities, Iximaya

Publisher: New York : Printed by J.W. Bell

Collection: library_of_congress; americana

Contributor: The Library of Congress

Language: English

Item Size: 84.9M

Title page within ornamental border

An apocryphal production

"Profile illustrations from Central American ruins, of ancient races still existing in Iximaya": p. [3]-4 -- "Memoir of a recent eventful expedition in Central America [purporting to be an abridgment with translated extracts of the journal kept by Velasquez, who accompanied Huertis and Hammond, the promoters of the expedition]": p. [5]-35

"Iximaya" is claimed to be the traditional Indian city referred to by John L. Stephens' "Incidents and travel in Central America ..." New York, 1841, v. 2, p. 195-197